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President Obama has been, hands down, the least popular figure at Saturday’s Freedom Summit in Iowa—blistered for what Republicans here cast as his unconstitutional overreach, for scandals at the Veterans Affairs Department and the IRS, and for his policies on immigration and abortion rights. A close second? The unofficial front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Donald Trump, the showman who perennially threatens to run for president—and who said Saturday that he was pondering 2016 again—searingly criticized both Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, the leading establishment presences at this exceedingly early stage of the campaign. “It...

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President Obama has been, hands down, the least popular figure at Saturday’s Freedom Summit in Iowa—blistered for what Republicans here cast as his unconstitutional overreach, for scandals at the Veterans Affairs Department and the IRS, and for his...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has had a tough winter, and it's not getting any better with a new poll showing his favorability dropping sharply in his home state.
Christie, who hopes to get his party's presidential nomination, wins a favorable view from...

While not exactly motherhood or apple pie, stopping the spread of communicable diseases would seem to be the rare issue that transcends political differences, even in these fiercely partisan times.
But the debate that arose this week over childhood...

Thanks to a thoughtless equivocation by an American governor visiting Britain, the measles vaccine has become the first important controversy of the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
As with other long-settled issues that unexpectedly pop up to...

"Choice" is a great word -- it has a universal, empowering appeal, and it's useful for winning a debate. Women's rights activists were smart decades ago to call their side of the abortion debate "pro-choice," asking us to...

Is anyone really surprised that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie equivocated about the urgency of vaccinating children against measles, mumps and rubella on a trip to England, where he is attempting to burnish his foreign policy credentials in advance of...

In his first public remarks since telling GOP donors that he is weighing a third bid for the White House, Mitt Romney suggested Friday that if he does run he would alter the focus that led to his loss in 2012 to President Obama.
“I believe in the...

Technically, the number of formal contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination is still zero. But a huge and impressive field of almost-candidates has already turned the contest into a crowded, noisy brawl.The starting gun, in case you...

Vowing to quickly sign legislation that would lower taxes, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered a State of the State address Tuesday calling for bipartisanship and more economic stability in his state as he ponders a run for the White House.
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Rep. Paul D. Ryan announced Monday that he will not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, saying his job as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee deserves his "undivided attention."
"It's clear our country...

There seems to be only one year that is not an election year and that is the first year of a new president’s first term. Note to future presidents: Get your governing done in those initial 12 months; after that, it’s all politics, all the time.
The...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee pulled the plug on his Fox News Channel talk show on Saturday in order to “gauge support” for a second presidential run.
In an email to supporters and in comments at the close of his weekly show, Huckabee alluded to...

This early stretch of presidential campaigns used to be known as the invisible primary. The action — would-be candidates drawing up strategies, courting donors and recruiting aides — occurred beyond the sight of ordinary voters.Only it's not invisible...

After repeatedly ruling out another run for president in 2016, Mitt Romney indicated Friday he was at least giving it some thought.
His statement behind closed doors to a group of political donors in Manhattan further unsettles a wide-open GOP race and...

Twelve months before the voting is set to begin, the 2016 presidential race is shaping up as a fiercely competitive contest driven by two overriding forces that — candidates aside — will go a long way toward deciding the next occupant of the White House....

In 1947, U.S. historian Wilfred E. Binkley took stock of the 13 men who had been president since the end of the Civil War and reached a stark conclusion: Governorship was “a training school for successful presidents.” The seven ex-governors on the list...

The New Year brings a great many revered traditions: fitness resolutions, "Auld Lang Syne," the descent of the crystal ball in Times Square.
That list does not include, at least for most people, the onrush of the next presidential campaign....

Pope Francis set off a fascinating debate about whether animals have souls when he offered consolation earlier this week to a boy whose dog had died.
“One day, we will see our animals again in the eternity of Christ,” the pope said during a public...

Remember Ebola?Only two months ago, many Americans were gripped by fear of the uncontrollable spread of an apparently incurable disease that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected could strike 1.4 million people in West Africa before...